receiving · serial-numbers · warehouse · 3 min read
A walkthrough of Business Central warehouse receipts on a mobile device — creating the receipt, assigning the user, scanning serials one by one, preloaded serials and posting.
Last updated · Plur-e Team
Quick answer
To receive a purchase order with serial numbers in Business Central from a phone, create the Warehouse Receipt from the purchase order, assign it to the warehouse user, then in Plur-e Mobile open the receipt, scan each serial number once, send the serials and post. Business Central creates the Posted Warehouse Receipt with item tracking lines — no typing on a terminal.
Receiving is where inventory accuracy is won or lost. When serial numbers are typed into Business Central after the fact, they arrive late, with transposed digits, or not at all. This post shows the flow Plur-e customers use to capture serials at the dock, and what Business Central does with them.
Business Central tracks serialized items with Item Tracking Lines attached to the document line. On a warehouse receipt you must supply one serial per unit before posting. The standard client lets you type them or paste them; neither works well with a pallet of scanners in front of you.
The location must use warehouse receipts (Require Receive), and the person receiving must be the Assigned User ID on the document — that field is what a mobile app filters on.
Warehouse Receipt**. Set Assigned User ID to the person with the phone.
Untracked lines take a quantity; tracked lines open the serial screen.
wrong label? Select it and delete it. The ? icon shows the item's tracking configuration so the operator knows what the item expects.
bottom posts the receipt, and the app offers to continue with the put-away.
Transfer orders and some purchase orders already carry serials. In that case there is nothing to scan: the app shows the preloaded list, the operator verifies the physical units and confirms. This is common for inter-warehouse transfers where the shipping site already registered the serials.
| Action | Business Central |
|---|---|
| Send line | Qty. to Receive and Item Tracking Lines on the Warehouse Receipt |
| Post | Posted Whse. Receipt; item ledger entries with serials; put-away created if the location requires it |
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